© The artist's estate
Looking West from Martigues
Various
- Art Funded
- 1935
- Dimensions
- Various
- Presented by
- Mr & Mrs J G Lousada through The Art Fund
Five of thirteen gifts to five museums by J G Lousada through the Art Fund between 1921 and 1939.
© The artist's estate
Five of thirteen gifts to five museums by J G Lousada through the Art Fund between 1921 and 1939.
Nominally inspired by Lucretius' De rerum natura, Piero di Cosimo's The Forest Fire takes its scientific subject and embellishes it with fantastical creatures from the artist's imagination: Bulls, bears, lions and deer-like creatures with human faces all flee wearily from a fire.
Rubens' portrait of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel dates from about 1629. The Earl was a great collector, and Rubens had painted the earl's wife a few years earlier on a visit to Antwerp. This drawing in pen and ink with a chalk base is unusually informal, reflecting perhaps the comfortable relationship between artist and patron.